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In this episode Dave, Chris, and Luke discusses the music career of Corey Feldman why Ya Gotta Them Live!

In this episode, Chris and Luke have to guess the top 10 episode from actor, director and writer Sylvester Stallone!

It's our penultimate episode and we ask - who's got the goods, the bollocks, the testes to listen to our thoughts on Dementus?

A chance encounter on a quiet beach becomes the first step toward something far stranger. Promises of belonging draw people into the shadows, where devotion blurs into obsession and questions linger long after the leader disappears. In Episode 7, the search for answers leads deeper into a mystery that refuses to let go.

Dave's Halloween special walks through the Halloween franchise from John Carpenter's 1978 original to Halloween: Resurrection. For each film you get a quick recap, where it's streaming and a score out of 10. On the way he covers the Thorn timeline, the masks that never looked right again, Paul Rudd's first screen credit and Busta Rhymes' kung fu fight. A good primer if you're planning a Halloween marathon. In this episode TimeFilmYearStreaming (as Dave recorded it)Score2:34Halloween1978AMC+, Shudder, Fubo, YouTube10/107:13Halloween II1981Prime Video, Peacock10/1015:00Halloween III: Season of the Witch1982Prime Video, Peacock6/1021:16Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers1988AMC+, Shudder5/1026:36Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers1989AMC+, Shudder4/1030:00Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers1995not named5/1035:17Halloween H20: 20 Years Later1998HBO Max, Hulu7/1040:49Halloween: Resurrection2002HBO Max, Hulu4/1047:12Rob Zombie and David Gordon Green films2007–2022skipped on purpose— Also mentioned Dave's 10 Star Hall of Fame episode of Streams and Nightmares NEOZAZ Goes to Crystal Lake, on why backstory makes a slasher less scary Chris from Pass the Popcorn, on pacing Brother Cane's song from the Halloween 6 soundtrack More from Streams and Nightmares and our Halloween episodes. Transcript (auto-generated) This transcript was generated automatically from the episode audio. It may contain errors and does not label speakers. 0:26 Tell police! Tell the sheriff I shot him. Donavis, he's still on the loose. Is this some kind of joke? I've been tricked or treated to death tonight. You don't know what death is. Hello and welcome to Streams and Nightmares, where the horror is always streaming and the nightmares never end. My name is Dave and I am your host of the best, the worst, and the bloodiest, streaming horror on all streaming platforms. Welcome back to the show and happy Halloween, as we've mentioned many times on lots of our NEOZAZ podcasts. If you're familiar with any of them, Halloween is our favorite holiday. It is our favorite time of year that we dive into the thing that we like most. So it's only fitting that a horror podcast like Streams and Nightmares do a Halloween special, and that's what this is. And I'm dedicating this to my friends. 1:30 Favorite, favorite, favorite thing in horror all time, and that is the Halloween franchise. So, what I thought I'd do. Go through at least the parts of the Halloween franchise that I like to discuss. Let you know where they're streaming. Give you a brief recap if you forgot some of the stuff that happens in the later movies. To prime you for maybe a Halloween marathon on Halloween night. I know I intend. On Halloween night as I've made a tradition for myself. Over the past many, many years, to attend a big screen screening of the original 1978 classic. John Carpenter's Halloween, which I will be doing this Saturday night. So, whatever your Halloween plans are, maybe you'll include this podcast as one of them because I'm gonna go through. The franchise, or at least part of the franchise, mentioned the other ones very briefly because I don't like talking about them anymore. But that means we start at the beginning with the all-time classic. The nineteen eighties nineteen seventy eight. 2:34 Perfect, perfect movie, which I have talked about a lot on a lot of podcasts over the years of NEOZAZ, including this show. And that is the original Halloween. This is a 10 out of 10. I did my 10 out of 10 Hall of Fame show, I don't know, many months ago. And of course, this was on it. It is streaming on AMC Plus, Shudder, Fubo, YouTube, and, like I said, in theaters. better way to celebrate Halloween than to go see it in theaters with a bunch of your friends. really loud. Enjoying it the way it was intended, but just to give you that extra little bit of Halloween spirit, here's the original trailer. Halloween Night. Small American town. years ago. What's up, guys? eight years trying to reach him. 3:58 seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil. Uh I think you'll come back. Exploring uncharted territory? Totally charted. Sure, sure. The only reason she babysit is to have Halloween. Okay then. Come on out. F**k! 5:03 Oh. What? Um Whoa. Okay. Uh Um Okay. So I mean, you know how when people watch all these movies at Christmas and they say, like, well, it's not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall off the Nakatomi building. It's not Christmas until that happens. 6:04 Well for me. It's not Halloween until I hear P.J. Soles say the word totally. About 10 times in Halloween. This movie is perfectly made. It's the pacing Chris from Pass the Popcorn. And I were just talking about pacing in movie and how, yeah, some movies you could construe them as being boring. But if the pacing and wetting your whistle all along the way for things that are gonna pay off later happens, like a master filmmaker like John Carpenter does, it's not boring. It's perfectly paced. Some of the tracking shots in this are way ahead of its time. The one where Laurie is walking to the house where the climax will happen, it's this long tracking shot. There's another long tracking shot that you just heard in the trailer of Laurie running from the house to try and get anyone to come to the door to help her. There's so many great things in this. And I've talked about it a lot, so I'm not going to dwell too much on Halloween because people are probably sick of me talking about it, but it is the reason that I love horror. It's, it is the reason for the season. 7:13 Just like Jesus is to Christmas, Michael Myers is to Halloween, and I have so much crap all over my little. dork layer, including like my match book. Uh matchbook from the Rabbit in Red Lounge that Loomis finds on the dashboard. Like there's so many great little things about Halloween that people have. Clung to over the years. It's a 10 out of 10. It's one of the greatest movies ever made. And I'll shut up about it, okay? Although you're gonna have to hear me ramble about how much I love something else right now as well, because we go from Halloween straight into Halloween to 1981. streaming on Prime, Peacock, and also in theaters. I saw Halloween 2 last year in theaters, and I love that people are starting to not just show Halloween, but also show this from time to time because I think people that really love this know how good Halloween 2 is as well. That was also in my Hall of Fame. This is another 10 out of 10, and it's hard for a sequel to back something up. This did 8:15 Halloween 2 does. I shot him six times. I shot him in the heart. This mad, he's not human. Universal Pictures presents Halloween 2. More of the night he came home. Reason that wasn't even remotely human. Some kind of a joke? I've been trigger-treated to death tonight. You don't know what death is. Janet. Go tell Mr. Garrett we're having trouble with the folks there is no place to hide. He will always find you. What's this? It's a Celtic word. It means the Lord of the Dead. 9:46 Together. the night he came home. Okay, so I wanted to point out that there are a few things in this that someone could poke fun at. And I've heard people do it, and it's very funny because you can tell that they're fans, and that's what you do. You take the piss out of the things you like. Like how deranged Dr. Loomis starts to come. We've talked about this. There are times that he's straight up ready to murder somebody. Teenagers, right? 10:56 There's that. There's the ending. Laurie Strode, who you can assume has never shot a gun in her life with two shots. Perfectly aim. Two shots right in Michael Myers' eyes. Is that stuff happening? Of course not. No, I don't care. Okay, because I actually saw this one first. Uh so the original Halloween is kind of a prequel to me. being a little kid and not really having access to these. At the time, I saw Halloween 2 first, and it starts with that great recap. Of the original because it is the same night, which I love when they do that in movies. And the shot that I know hooked me. was picture in Halloween Laurie Strode the original is in the closet. Michael Myers breaking through the closet door and Laurie pokes his eye with the hanger. He goes down. Laurie, instead of running, decides to sit down and relax in the hall like most final girls do. And it's the shot of Michael Myers laying straight on his back. 11:59 Sitting straight up. Turning his head in a robotic way at her. That was the shot that got me hooked with Halloween. And that's all Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers and director of some pretty s****y movies later in his life. That deserves a lot of credit. That is the thing that really got me hooked. I love a couple other little things in this though. Nancy Loomis, who plays Annie, comes back. For that one scene when they wheel her body out and Sheriff Brackett gets to see her. So Annie Brackett has maybe five. That's being generous. Seconds of screen time in this movie. And Nancy Loomis comes back. I have a feeling Nancy Loomis and Debra Hill and John Carpenter are really good friends because not only is she in these, she's an assault in Precinct 13. I think she's actually probably the best part of the first two movies as far as the girls. Jamie Lee Curtis gets a lot of credit. She deserves it all. But when you think about that triad of girls being P.J. Soless, Nancy Loomis, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the other two are much more entertaining. 13:04 Then Jamie Lee Curtis's. I love that stuff. That in fact, that's the scene that Dana Carvey's in. Talk about that a lot. Dana Carvey is a In the front yard, as Nancy Loomis is being wheeled out. But there's a lot of nice new little things in here. Lance Guest, who I always like, is a great addition, and him slipping in that blood. All of these things are. memory makers for me. And t

We're down on the planet Kairos to look at Captain Shad. But are we down on Jarvick, as we give him a rating? Have a listen and find out!

Spoiler warning: this episode and these notes discuss all of Peacock's Crystal Lake, including the finale. In NEOZAZ's 2026 Halloween special, the crew argues about Peacock's Crystal Lake, the series about young Jason Voorhees and his mother Pamela. Two of them liked it. Dave quit halfway through episode one and came back only for the finale. He explains why a backstory with a mad scientist and a super-serum ruins Jason for him. Then everyone moves to a campfire for true ghost stories: a demon beckoning from a building site in Marlton, New Jersey, an old woman on the attic stairs, and two grandparents in the dining room. In this episode TimeTopic0:14The rules of surviving a slasher, and who actually watched all eight episodes5:34Origin stories: Rob Zombie's Halloween, The Book of Boba Fett and why nobody touches Yoda6:37Mike Flanagan's Carrie series and other people with telekinesis9:45Why Dave went in with "a machete on his shoulder"13:59The backstory: a miscarriage, a mad scientist and the serum that made Jason17:22Linda Cardellini as Pamela, and what Dave wanted instead19:29What works: the Christy family, Crazy Ralph and the camp counselors25:03The finale and sack-head Jason30:16Harry Manfredini's score and the 1980s camerawork31:18Love it or hate it: the 2009 remake and the Elm Street remake35:32Visiting the real camp and the Blairstown diner37:44Campfire ghost stories51:33Goodnight from the woods Also mentioned Streams and Nightmares – Halloween Franchise, Dave's walk through the Michael Myers films NEOZAZ's A Nightmare on Elm Street commentaries with Erica More Halloween episodes and NEOZAZ Specials. Transcript (auto-generated) This transcript was generated automatically from the episode audio. It may contain errors and does not label speakers. 0:14 And Hello and welcome to this NEOZAZ Halloween special for 2026. Six, six, six. Sounds like you're saying sex. Which is what gets people killed in these movies. That's right. You know the rules. You don't have sex. You don't go in the woods and what else? You don't drink or do drugs. You don't drink and or do drugs or you would die. You deserve to die. You deserve to die. If you do all three, yeah. dead. I've done I've done some of those things. W this isn't gonna be really we th there's there's a a new Peacock series that premiered maybe what, Luke, like a month ago? No, not even that. Couple weeks ago couple weeks ago. Crystal Lake. About like young Jason and what happened to him. At the camp, and he drowned, and blah blah blah. Then you know the rest. A few of us. 1:15 Watch the show. And I really liked it. And there's one person who didn't watch the show, just watched a few episodes and hate it. So we're here to discuss why that person's wrong. I will I will admit Right off the bat. I did not watch this entire show. I watched. Half of the first episode and turned it off. Then watched the second half because you were like, you got to give it another chance. Made it through the first one. And then I watched the final episode. So I watched the first and the last. So I say everything that I'm about to say without watching the entire episode. I will admit that. The entire series. I will admit that. But you know, like on that last one, you told me everything that was going on. So I already knew. The and then going into that last one, they do the previously unlost. You know, right right. And they give you the whole series basically in the recap. for the last episode. I know the story. 2:18 Yes. Did I see every kill? No. Do I know all the characters? No. But I know the story, and the story is what I have a problem. Well, when this when we start watching it. And there's like flashbacks of whatever happened to Pam Voorhees and Jason Voorhees back in the day. I too. At first I was like, oh, is he like an X-Men experiment? What is happening here? Oh, by the way, we should say spoilers. Spoilers. Spoilers, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. I mean, if you're listening to this and it's our Crystal Lake Reaction Show. I'm sure you've seen it. But we are just gonna say everything that happens in this show, so Turn it off. I mean, honestly, turn it off anyway. Go watch like a classic Friday 13th movie. Go watch part. Part 4. Go spend time with your family. Right. There's this don't drink or do drugs. No, or have sex. Or certainly with the family. I mean, I don't know what your family's into, but whatever. 3:26 whatever floats your boat. And if that boat's a canoe, watch out. Yeah. I know what day where day's coming from'cause I myself Was scared of like, what are they doing to somebody who I thought was born? Maniac. I don't have an answer why I accepted it. I don't know why I really went along with it, I guess it just made sense to me. It does make sense to like why he's super strong, why he can't die. Right. Like, it explains what we never knew. Dave doesn't want to answer sometimes. Does it making sense also make it good? It doesn't, you know, I will say, I think it does make it good. It doesn't make it better. No. You know what I mean? It doesn't like up the whatever the word is, up the ante of. Wow, that this makes Jason better. It's it just. 4:31 Plateaus, I guess. It doesn't make it better, but it makes me Enjoy it makes sense. Thank you. So it doesn't take away from what you're already enjoying. That is true, yeah. And here, and even Luke kept on bringing up too, like my favorite horror guy is Freddy Krueger. Now, if there was a Freddy Krueger in his teens. TV show or movie. Who knows how I would take it? Because he he means, I don't know, yeah, he means he means so much to me. No, he just. I like Freddy more and I don't want people to f**k up what I like about Freddy, I guess. Okay. Well, that's fair. Yeah. Let me ask you this before I uh even talk about my stuff and we maybe have a discussion or maybe just start yelling at each other. How did you feel about the Rob Zombie Halloween movies? Because he tried. To do this in that first Halloween. He wanted to give you some insight into the childhood of Michael Myers. 5:34 I remember liking them. I did like them. I really, cause I know it's weird to explain. Like, I know John Carpenter hated those ones. I can see why because he said they told you too much about Michael. But that's what Dave, I guess, doesn't like too much. And for like like Boba Fett, what made him f*****g great? He knew nothing about him. Until Book of Boba Fett and the and the and the bathing of Boba Fett and all this other shit that they gave you right makes you like oh Yes. Ah. Right. Dog dead. Dead dog. But I enjoyed those Rob Zombie ones. I did. I like, I guess, whatever I like, I don't mind. A new telling or something New to watch. Somebody else's take on it. Someone else's take on it because I've seen whatever so many times. Let me see something new. Dave. 6:37 Like with a new Carrie show, there's like something new. Yeah, and I never was like a, oh, I love Carrie so much, but I enjoyed the movie and then the, the. The new movie and now this T V show. I I'm enjoying whatever they're they're they're giving me, I'm gonna take. I guess. And Carrie doesn't have the same Uh gravitas as Jason Voorhees. Plus That's all I'm Mike Flanagan. Carrie. So you know somebody super talented is doing it. I don't like some of the stuff that's going on with Carrie either, but I don't care. Right,'cause it's it's Carrie's not really Close to your heart, I guess, as right. The original Carrie is a masterpiece, but I'm not sitting there thinking, like, how dare you soil the good name of Carrie by making her, well, spoiler alert, also for that, making her, you know, part of some kind of super society of. telekinetic uh supervillains. But 7:38 Yeah. But Luke looked it up. Didn't you look it up? I looked it up. Saying what? And said, in the book, it implies that other people have telekinesis. Yeah, like there's other people out there in the book. I believe that. That's just like in The Shining, there's other people that have the shining. And you listen to some fan theories, they will say that, you know, it's like Danny and Tony. you know, like all that crap and and Scatman Crothers. But everyone will say like, no, Jack Torrance has the shining. He got it from his dad. Like don't you think that like even for like carriers or something like don't you think that There has to be more than one on the planet that has this kind of shit. That's what Mom said. Right. The world's a big place. Yeah, I get that. I just it's like I like your um comparing it to Boba Fett because I was thinking Yoda. Nobody will touch Yoda, right? Like, nobody knows shit about Yoda. 8:40 And no one It has the balls. To mess with that, right? Well, that's why I think they have Grogu, because just if that was like baby, like the real. Baby Yoda, that would have been horrible. Like, Grogu's not Yoda, we assume, I guess. No. So they're not going to touch. Yeah, you're right. Like, Yoda would make him great is you don't know anything about him. He's just old. Yeah. Well, he can't be, he can't be Yoda just based on the timeline of the shit that he wants that too, but they could make some kind of. DeLorean thing. You know. But I think it's funny that you compare it to that because when they started making that and Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau immediately were like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. This isn't Yoda. Don't get mad at us. This is a new character. Just don't get mad. Right, they know not to mess with that. Not to f**k around with some yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you're Exactly right. Well I told you Started watching this and I had one of two fears. This kind of had no shot with me, and maybe that's partly my fault. 9:45 Because I think that this was completely unnecessary. I think you s you started watching this with the rather than a chip on your shoulder, you had a f*****g machete on your shoulder. You had you already had You already told yourself, I

Box Office Bozo pays tribute to Tom Skerritt, who died in October 2026 at 93. Dave hosts as Chris and Luke try to name seven of the ten highest-grossing films of Skerritt's career, with strikes against them and two lifelines to help. Can they become Box Office Bosses? Afterwards the guys remember why every movie needs a Tom Skerritt, with a stop at his run on Cheers as Evan Drake. In this episode TimeSegment0:11Welcome to Box Office Bozo, and beach volleyball with the Top Gun pilots2:22Why a Box Office Bozo tribute instead of a Best of Fives3:26The rules: seven of the top ten, strikes and two lifelines5:37The game begins25:47The verdict26:56Bonus round: the rest of the list33:10What made Tom Skerritt the steadiest character actor around36:18Evan Drake on Cheers and the bedroom scene with George Wendt38:38Rest in peace, Tom Skerritt Play along before you peek. The full list is in the transcript below. More from Box Office Bozo and The Best of Fives. Transcript (auto-generated) This transcript was generated automatically from the episode audio. It may contain errors and does not label speakers. 0:11 Hello and welcome to Box Office Bozo, a game show where NEOZAZ celebrities Chris and Luke Try their hands at guessing the top 10 highest-grossing movies of an actor's career. If they can do that, they will become box office bosses. But if they cannot, they will become box office bozos. Play along with or against them as you, if you can avoid becoming a box office. Woohoo! Luke and I are right now on on a sandy beach shirtless wearing jeans. Oh yeah. Playing volleyball, all chiseled, all chiseled and ripped and glistening from the sun and the sweat. Yeah. And it was so it was so amazing how those guys who were fighter pilots also happened to be like pro level beach volleyball players. Damn right. I think that's a course. To become a pilot, you got to learn how to play volleyball well. Yeah, really? 1:16 Didn't you like like let's just say like when they go to college? Whatever it's called. Air Force uh Well they were Navy pilots, so they went to Annapolis. Maybe you know how when you went to college, one of your courses was was ping pong, right? I had as a gym class I had juggling. See? Badminton. For gym class. And fencing. Safer and fencing. I'm a good knife. At least it it was when I was, you know. 19. I don't know. Nothing Dave has to use in today's job world. You would be surprised how many times I have to fence at the grocery store. But maybe volleyball was a course that they had to take to, you know, as a gym class. You know what I mean? Maybe. And I already we we're already are out of line. We're being way too uh uh jocular. About what we're about to do. Why we're wearing we should be a little more respectful and remote or morose. And I blame Luke. 2:22 So do you want to explain what we're doing or do you want me to? You can do it. Alright, so we generally, when someone dies. See? Yeah. Just told the way Dave said it. Okay. When when someone dies But Because Tom Skerritt. Was not a headlining A-list or actor, but more of a character actor that we all like from things. Like we all grew up in the 70s and 80s. Well, Luke didn't, but you know, most of our memes ass core. We grew up watching Tom Skerritt. Really deliver. in a lot of great roles as a fantastic character actor. So in tribute. The passing of Tom Skerritt rather than doing a best of fives. We will do a box office bozo in memoriam. Of the late Great Tom Skerritt, where you We'll have to guess his top 10, seven of the top 10 highest-grossing movies. I have worldwide gross here. 3:26 You get three sort of four strikes to do it. If you can't, you will be boxed off as Bozo. You have two lifelines, one being claim a co-star, where you can ask me for a co-star in any of the movies. Or fill up a friend where you can ask anybody you want what they think are some of the top. Movies of this actor. And I have a feeling for Tom Skerritt: like, if I text anybody, they're going to say, Two or three that have already been said. Yeah. Cause Tom Skerritt. He's not a he's not a Disney voice actor. And he didn't play Iron Man's Dad. That's all you needed. Marvel, yeah, and and voices are gonna be this. This is gonna be really rough'cause'cause he's like Dave said, he's like not like starring. It's like, he's like, I think I have two in mind. Two are gonna be after the two. We're done. I am forecasting. This episode to be Us being bozos. You say that every time, but you do consult your list. You're not picking this out of midair. You have a list that you can consult. 4:29 Um I think you're gonna do okay because you know This guy. We all know this guy well. He's always, when he shows up in something, you always go, oh, I love Tom Skerritt. And we even saw him at a convention, I swear, three, four years ago, and he was. Signing people had hit a line. He had you never met him. No, I didn't go over there. No, I seen him, but yeah. But if you needed an actor in the seventies and eighties to toe the line and play a certain kind of role. He was the guy. He was, you knew every time you saw him in the credits of something, he was going to deliver. You never saw a bad performance out of Tom Skerritt. Not at all. No. He's he was a s he was like a steady eddie. He always brought the goods. And I respect him and I do really like him. And when you told me, he was like, oh, I guess you heard, right? Who died? And I was like, no. And you were like, Tom Skerritt. No. You were like, yeah, no. Yeah. You were like pretty. Bummed out and all about that. Love Tom Skerritt. Yeah. And God rest his soul. So we're going to do this in tribute to him rather than a mess of fives. 5:37 But yeah, I'm ready to listen if you're ready to guess. I'm ready to guess. Luke, you said you have two immediately. Let's let's hear your tip. I think Top Gun is an Alien. I think it was like late 70s. I would think it made some money. Oh, wait. Tell us the top one and the 10th one, Dave. His number one highest grossing worldwide movie was$360 million. Number 10. But that's a low amount. And I want to ask this first: was he in Maverick? Do you remember him in the sequel? I don't remember him in the in in the season. 'Cause wasn't John Hamm kind of like the new yeah. That I use. New Tom Skerritt guy or something. John Ham and his giant penis. I'm so tired of him. I would be too carrying al along that big giant penis, right? Um do I say top gun? Yeah, let's get that let's get the let's get the obvious ones over with Alien. I hope made more than 18 million dollars. 6:38 But um Dave, Top Gun, final answer. Top Gun came out in 1986 where he plays. Viper. And it made$360 million and is his all-time number one highest-grossing movie. And the thing that people from our generation probably remember him from the most. Maverick, you'll get your reel when you get to your ship. if you don't Give me a call. I'll fly with him. Sir, I mean, I got chills right there. I got goosebumps right there. He was perfect for the role. This is what Tom Skerritt does best. He says he gives you the chills and he leaves. Yeah. One for one. Now he's pissed off. Yeah, that was the one that I'm like, once we name these these two. Let's say Alien. And if that's number 10 to 18, holy shit, we're like f****d that. You know what I mean? 7:43 But um Alien final answer date. Alright. Alien came out in nineteen seventy nine where he plays Dallas. Alien Made $106 million. Is that two? is three. It drops down to three. So Um yeah, like one of the greatest movies of all time, but it came out in 1979. Even if they re-release it, it's not making like the kind of movie that like Avengers Encore or whatever f**k it was called. Right. Like this is one of the greatest movies of all time. It barely breaks a hundred million. Well Some of you may have figured out we're not home yet. We're only halfway there. What? Mother's interrupted the course of our journey. What? Yeah. She's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They have. Like what? Seems she has. Intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. She got us up to check it out. A transmission? Out here? Yeah. What kind of a transmission? Acoustical beacon that repeats at intervals of 12 seconds. SOS? Human? 8:56 Unknown. There you go. That's a great funny movie. Like, the only thing that bothers me about this movie sometimes is his hair. I don't know why. His hair looks like it's not real on top of his head. What, an Alien? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, an Alien. Looks like he's wearing like this big black But maybe that was like like the 70s style, I guess. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's like 70s hair. Yeah. Well And the show's over. You got one and three. Now what do you do? Now see, let me, I'm going down his list. He's in so much. Oh, wait a minute. Do you count him as a is that a game? Yeah. Never mind then. Okay. I saw he was in Alien, like an Alien. game but that's not a movie. Maybe they used his voice or his likeness or something. What's his wings? No, that can't be a f*****g movie. That can't be that's been that that no, I'm not I'm not picking wings. Wings with uh Tim Daly? 9:56 No, it's called Sky Force Heroes. It's probably like a like right to the tomb. Oh, there is a wings. Yeah but wait a minute, Ted, he's in Ted? Yeah, he he plays himself in Ted. Oh we gotta say say Ted. They said, that hasn't made me go 18 million. Yeah. Yeah. Ted, final answer. He's in Ted? Oh shit. He plays he plays himself? I don't know if I forget it. All right. If that is right. You have um It says he waits. That I don't have. And I will give that to you. He's briefly referenced in TED. There is a photo. So we can't count Ted then. No, he's not in. Okay. Okay. He's not in. His photo's in. Take it back to the bottom. In the movie, John Bennett played Black. Take it back out. Yeah, no, no, we won't I won't count that. In the movie, John Bennett played by f*****g Mark Wahlberg. That's

Clayface just hit theaters, so Chris, Luke and Dave each rank their five favorite actors who played Batman villains, with Tim McGeorge along to judge. First come the Clayface verdicts from a very eventful screening. Then the lists, the honorable mentions and one big mix-up over what the assignment actually was. In this episode TimeTopic0:20Why Batman: Clayface opens this weekend1:21The Clayface screening, a loud eater and a barefoot neighbor15:31Clayface scores, Pass the Popcorn style19:43The rules, and the Adam West show's 37 villains20:53Number 5s32:49Number 4s40:47Number 3s53:29Number 2s, plus James Gunn calling Tim Burton's Batman boring1:06:34Number 1s, and the summer of Batman in 19891:18:15Honorable mentions1:23:40Tim's pick1:24:41Joker: Folie à Deux gets a defense Also mentioned: NEOZAZ Goes to Crystal Lake, and the Clayface review on Pass the Popcorn. More from The Best of Fives. Transcript (auto-generated) This transcript was generated automatically from the episode audio. It may contain errors and does not label speakers. 0:20 Na na na na na best of fives N na na na na na na na na best of fives. Your remix. Your remix. As you can tell, this is going to be a Batman episode. due to Clayface, which just came out this this weekend. Which I'm here with my son Luke. My my podcast of Buddy Dave. Uh And seconds ago, just calling me to talk about. His opinion on Clayface, and I said, Just wait, we're about to record. He goes, I'm gonna be on is Tim. Well I had the idea to do... No, was it you Lucas had top five villains? I I said top five Batman villain. Right. And I was like, ooh, even better let's do like Batman like actors or actresses who've portrayed any Batman villain and anything out there. 1:21 TV, cartoons. Movies, whatever. So that's what we're doing. Tim McGeorge is joining us at the very last minute. He doesn't have a list, but he's going to comment on ours. be like Chris you're stupid Dave genius Luke, shut up. That's how it's gonna go. Yeah. Why, because Tim and I agree? Well, let's let's get this over with. So I don't I don't have no to to Dave and I and Luke saw Clayface. In the same theater, not together'cause they've had to sit. Somewhere else because it was packed. Yeah. I sat between strangers on both sides, one of whom was a loud eater and one of whom, you know, like you can recline the seats and your feet go up and then you have to like scooch by people's feet. Yeah. Bare feet. Bare feet. He tells this. Someone tells it. So, like, you got to go in, and it's like, you know, people move their feet a little. This guy, bare feet, hairy, you know. 2:23 Toe knuckles. And when you walk past, he would barely like kind of hit his ankle just a little bit. That was all he was willing to do to let people buy. I think that his toe knuckle hair grazed my thigh. Grazed your mustache. Wait a minute. Well, I was sucking thumb. You see, she's like, you know, this is really inappropriate. Maybe we should get some more butter flavor. That is the smallest thing I've heard. I didn't even know about that. Yeah, but that wasn't the worst part of the evening because then the movie started. Well, let me say how Luke and I. We enjoyed it. We really enjoyed it for what it was. I'm glad it was a new buddy, whatever. The guy, I didn't expect much. I like the Gotham feel. I thought the origin of who he how he became Clayface and the I thought that Nightclub scene was f*****g famous. 3:24 I really, really enjoyed it. And then Dave walked up. After it was over and said that I go, Dave man. How was it? And he goes, Okay. It was watchable. Watchable. And then Tim texted me last night. I was at a wedding, and he texted me saying, I hope Clayface gets better because this movie f*****g sucks. In capital letters. How far into the movie were you, Tim, when you saw it? I was maybe an hour into the movie and I was like. I was like, this movie f*****g sucks. It's so boring. It's everybody. I hate everybody in the movie. Like, it's just, it, it was, it's just terrible. It's, There uh Uh the the good aspect is there are some neat There are some neat effects. There's a couple cool shots. Yeah. Uh you know, earmuffs for people who haven't seen it who don't want to be spoiled. You do get to see 4:25 Last chance. You do get to see the classic. Comic slash Animated series look of clayface. And I was like, that's cool. And it's over. That's even better. Oh, that was the best part was that you saw the animated clear face. I'm like, holy shit. Yeah, you can see that anytime you want. Play the Lego Batman game. You can see it right now. That's what Luke said he looked like. You know, I'm saying an animated series, and Luke goes, That's what I said. He looked like the Lego Batman. I was like, oh, yeah, he did. I mean, yeah, other than that. You know how you got all Tim? No, no. Uh there was no Oh, well okay. There there I'll tell you, early on in the movie. when they're at the club. And he And he sees that girl across the way. And then also there's like that nip slip and you're like, oh, it was like, it was like you got that cheap thrill of like, that's not supposed to be there. 5:30 Then you realize, oh yeah, no, no, they they intentionally put the nipple in there. It's an intentional nipple. Oh yeah, it's it's not a nip slip, it's a nip hey. It's a nip. Look at this. I'm just shocked. I really thought that I don't know. I thought there's nothing. Like what were you expecting? Like this is just a a an origin story. That was that no one asked for. Yeah. Well, I I'll put it like this. It's it's kind of like the The Marvel villain movies. And it's sort of like that Cruella de Vil. I don't really care to watch a movie about classic villains, although I don't know if Clayface is really a classic villain. I don't really care to watch movies about villains, comic book villains that make them. The hero. Yeah, no, uh, you know, let the villain be a villain. It's like You know, I don't like Cruella de Vil. I don't need to see that Cruella de Vil is, you know, she grew up and she was abused and mistreated and then that. 6:37 Force her to want to make a gesture. That sounds very familiar on something else out there right now. It sounds a lot like a TV show that's on right now that also so. Oh, oh, are you talking about Crystal Lake? Yes. Yeah. I don't care. I don't want to know. If Jason's mother Is a psycho? Let her be a psycho. I don't need to see. I don't need to hear that maybe she ate. you know, bad oats and uh All of a sudden, turning the plot to Hot to Trot. Ate bad oats, and then she and then she becomes a villain. I don't care about that. And she became voiced by John Candy. Yeah. Oats! Bad oats. kill campers the word the words that the word that tim used is the exact word i when i i hobbled up the stairs which is another reason not to sit where you sit god damn it is up there we watched a trailer for like that a*****e who climbs the north face of everest and that was me walking up to chris 7:43 I needed a sharpa where you sit. So I get up there, and the first word I use is: it was boring. It was really boring. Just like Tim said. And it's like every other movie, it's 20 minutes too long. I wasn't bored once. I was not. You said I'm shocked Dave thinks it's boring because the original Friday 13th is boring. Yeah, that original movie is boring as f**k. I think there's just a difference in the way people know it it like good directing and and screenwriting is all about pacing and timing. And sometimes people nail it and sometimes people don't. And they didn't in Clayface. Yeah, like if you think about movies, if you think about like The Shining. You could be like, man, this is f*****g boring, but it's not because it's the pacing. The pacing is on the money. They know exactly how long you need to get. That sense of dread and to up the ante to when shit happens, you're like, all that was worth the payoff. 8:47 I don't think a lot of filmmakers know how to do that. They're apparently not this guy. Now whoever this was. The one thing I thought was funny, and I didn't think about it until afterwards. Okay. So the beginning of the movie. He gets his nomination for, I'm guessing, an Academy Award. They say they say Academy. And then You know, and then that night he's he's celebrating and then whoop, nip, slip, and then whoop slip the dip. And then he gets his face cut the next morning. Dick slip. So he uh So, and then they cut his face and he goes through the whole process of this, that, whatever, going to court. Losing all of his money. And all of that stuff, and then you see him watch the Academy Awards. He went through like Five years of legal proceedings. And it's only what, like six weeks before the between nominations and when the Academy Awards around there. Yeah, around there. So I'm like, I'm like, wow, that was expedited. You know, he was able to get, he was able to lose his entire life and career and everything in like a six week period, you know, from the day he got nominated to, you know, when he's watching SAD. 10:01 In his flop house in the narrows of Gotham. That's the Gotham legal system. That's why we must re-elect Harvey Dent. Did you like the Gotham feel, Ted? Did you think it had a Gotham feel? I didn't think it had one. Um no, I don't yeah, I agree with Dave. I don't think it had one because What are you guys missing? Well, I'll tell you what I'm missing. I'm missing the Gotham Field. Yeah. Unlike other Batman movies where, like, There are these sweeping shots of the streets and the cityscape and the city itself is a character. In almost all of the Batman movies, it's like that. This one, it was You could tell it was like shot on like a back lot somewhere. It was tightly. brained. You didn't really get to see the scope. You saw like the front of a building, but you didn't see like. No, there was a few skylines of of Gotham. Yeah, New York. Yeah. Like all of all of the other Batman movies you r

We're in Russia this time, to look at another of Hammer's historicals. Or is it a supernatural thriller?

Looking for streaming horror movie reviews you can trust? In this episode of Streams and Nightmares, Dave works through eight movies so you can skip the duds and find the keepers. The episode is called VHS Mixtape, A Cure for Wellness, The Car, Bloody Tennis, Do Not Enter, and it covers a mix of classics, cult oddities and brand new 2026 releases. Dave starts with the 1985 horror comedy Transylvania 6-5000, which gets a 5 out of 10 thanks to Jeff Goldblum, Jeffrey Jones and a scene-stealing Michael Richards. It's PG, so it could be a good Halloween watch with the kids. Then comes the 1977 possessed-car movie The Car, with James Brolin, great practical stunts and a score that echoes The Shining, also a 5 out of 10. Other picks include the Japanese kung fu oddity The Oily Maniac and the overlong but atmospheric Gore Verbinski gothic horror A Cure for Wellness. If you want honest streaming horror movie reviews made for horror movie fans, this episode shows which ones are worth your time. In this episode: Transylvania 6-5000, The Car and The Oily Maniac A Cure for Wellness: great atmosphere, but it needs a half hour cut Do Not Enter, a 2 out of 10 urban exploring dud on Prime Traumatic, a 2024 demonic possession movie Dave says to skip VHS Mixtape, the music-themed anthology that rates 3 out of 10, and why the Gwar segments fall flat Bloody Tennis, Dave's top pick at 6 out of 10, with a killer ending Dave's take on Jessica Chastain's Other Mommy

We're looking at the man behind all of Prometheus, Peter Weyland.

Horrifying Hunter, Devilish Dan and Appalling Ash reach Ear Today… Gone Tomorrow (season 7, episode 12, aired July 12, 1996), the last traditional live-action episode of Tales from the Crypt. A safecracker who has lost his hearing turns to a mad surgeon with some very unusual transplants. Along the way the hosts find out they read the wrong comic, share their favorite gross-out body horror, and visit the Crypt Keeper's "Slaymart." Final score: 3, 3 and 2.5 severed thumbs. In this episode TimeSegment1:23Words the hosts are tired of: "cracked" and "slop"2:24Favorite body horror: Braindead, Stir of Echoes, The Ugly Stepsister, Society, Tetsuo: The Iron Man9:07House of Horror: Haunt of Fear #11, then the real source, Tales from the Crypt #24's "Bats in My Belfry"14:50Top Billing: Robert Lindsay, Gretchen Palmer, Richard Johnson and Phil Davis18:19The Crypt Keeper goes to Slaymart, with Kmart blue light specials and Super Ks20:39Television Terror: the episode29:41The ending, and how the effect was done32:11Last Respects: the scores34:41Next week: the animated finale, then the last Eerie Excellence35:50Where to find the hosts, and Ash's Halloween Horror Nights season Also mentioned: Bloody Disgusting's list of 10 great EC Comics stories Tales from the Crypt never adapted. Bats in My Belfry tops it. Previous episode: Confession. More from Horrors from the Vault, and Halloween Horror Nights fans can dig into our HHN history, 1991 to today. Transcript (auto-generated) This transcript was generated automatically from the episode audio. It may contain errors and does not label speakers. 0:05 Boils and ghouls, it's time to gather round us horrifying Hunter, petrified Preston, and Devilish Dan crack open another volume of Tales from the Crypt. This is horrors from the farm. Welcome kitties to Horrors from the Vault. My name is Horrifying Hunter and I'll be one of the three shadowy figures leading you into the dark and haunted corridors of this very vault. 1:23 Tonight we're cracking open the 12th tome of the final season of Tales from the Crypt with Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow. An episode as, well, excuse me, it's an episode as the kids would say, all about getting cracked. Which is an expression I personally don't like very much. Apparently, it's a new way of saying you've had intercourse with someone and it's like you don't have a better way to say than you crack somebody. That's all. Isn't it gross? It's really gross. I don't like it very much, but yeah, it's a new thing that I'm encountering on social media. And I'm like, I don't. Anyways, let's. Let's not, let's not, like, I cracked your boy, your boy cracked me. I don't like any of that, you know? Ugh, ugh. You know what else I'm tired of? I'm tired of the word slop, because I get it. There is a lot of slop out there, but I am so sick of reading the word slop at this point. I wish it wasn't such an apt word for what it describes. 2:24 You know, like it's on the nose. I'm like, I hate hearing about it, but unfortunately, it's like the perfect word for what they're trying to convey. Can we recontextualize this, Ash? Can we be like, ooh, that's some AI moist? Like, can we can we make it grosser? That's a moist slop. That's ho I think that's homework. We need to come back with a word what can, you know, change the word slop. Well, we'll need it for next week's episode. But before we can venture fully into the vaults. Devilish Dan, not to spoil it too much, but we get a pretty gnarly bit of body horror to conclude our final live-action episode of the series. You got any favorite gross-out body horror moments that are a bit off the beaten path? I don't want to hear about The Thing. I don't want to hear about American Werewolf. Like, is there anything in recent memory? It could be an old movie, but like, is there anything in recent memory that you've seen where you're like, That's really f*****g gross. This is one of the weeks I wish you would have gone to Ash first. Well, we talked about last episode, if it didn't hit the cutting room floor, the new Insidious has some good teeth. 3:33 Grossness in it. So if you have issues with teeth, insidious out of the further is not going to be for you. What else body horror wise? Oh man. I think I got a hard pass. I'm spinning out here that isn't like. Uh obvious That has been talked about again and again. Can I be controversial here? Sure. Can I say one? Braindead is a little too much for me. Okay. The Peter Jackson one? It's just a little too gross for me. I don't know what it is. It is awfully gross. Well, and I think Evil Dead Rise then was probably pretty gross because there's a lot of kind of copy-paste elements to that. I just think Evil Dead has like a certain slickness to it where I'm like, ooh, yeah. That's nasty, but Braindead feels like I'm actually watching something I should not be. I hate that. I hate that cover. I hate the little skeleton baby in the mouth. There's a lot about Braindead where I don't actually hate this movie, but it is one that sends some shivers up my spine. Just like Slither. I've seen Slither once, probably never again. 4:47 See, I think the problem with me too with body horror stuff is like I've watched so much special effects things and how things were made where I'm just like I can more appreciate what they did versus getting skeeved out by it. You know, like, so like body horror is not really my prime go-to, but I appreciate your dislike for brain dead that like. custard thing in the soup is pretty gross. Yeah, I'm Go to Ash. See, I'll try to come back. I think it's Ash's turn. I felt because I wrote the question. Let me step in and try to give you both a little bit of buffer room, but I had to pick on you first, Dan. Ash, anything for you that just gives you the absolute heebie-jeebies? Yeah, you know what? This is it's always good going second for these questions for sure. You know what? I. Gives me the heebie jeebies and makes me shiver every time. You've seen Stir of Echoes with a fingernail. Oh, yeah. That is, that gets me every single time. I don't know what it is with like the fingernails sort of like ripping off or cracking. Oh, there's another one. 5:50 The fingernail ripping the fly too, that gets me. So yeah, Biddy, not too niche, but yeah, the fingernails in Stir of Echoes and the one with the rip in the fly to him. The Stir of Echoes that's a good answer. It's awful. Oh. I did come up with an obvious one that I can't believe that it just flew out of my brain is Ugly Stepsister from last year was fantastic by your. If you haven't seen that ash, check out the ugly side. I haven't seen it. Yeah, it's on shutter and it was on Hulu for a while. I'm not sure if it is anymore. There's no fingernails breaking in it, right? No, but there's like no stuff. There's a really good tapeworm scene. Oh, tapeworms. Yeah, there's some bad shit in there. It's good, though. What do you guys think about um What do you guys think about society, maybe? Oh, yeah. Society is pretty good. See, it's not really body horror. That doesn't gross me out to the same extreme, but I feel like that's one Tales from the Crypt viewers would enjoy if they hadn't seen it. Yeah, Society is pretty good. It's good and campy and like gross and sloppy. That's Screaming Mad George, if I remember correctly. So yeah, some of his effects in there are. 7:02 you know, obviously he's a king. Call it insensitive if you want, but there is some shit going on with the Japanese and their body horror. Like, what is it? Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Tetsuo: The Iron Man. I had to tap out of that. I had to. Yeah, I could not. That was one of those box sets that I blind bought at Barnes Noble because it was an arrow sale. And I'm like,$40. Let's check it out. And uh I think I made it through about three of those movies before I said, No, this is this is not for me, guys So that is a hot take'cause I know people absolutely swear by some of those movies. I think I am just an American mainstream uh Punk ass is how you would describe it. But yeah, yeah, I mean, if you want to get real extreme, like Martyrs is out there, you can check out Martyrs, but I don't recommend it to most people. Um, so that's why I didn't mention that. Um Uh what's the s the what's the skin I live in? Is that the one with Antonio Banderas uh where he's doing some very experimental surgery on somebody? 8:04 Um yeah. Check that out if you're a real sicko. I mean, my current favorites, uh, yes, I just confirmed that on Letterbox for you, Dan, if you were curious. So Um I think the one that's happening in the mainstream and we're like all watching it in real time is whatever is going on with Sylvester Stallone's face. It is, it is horrifying. He looks like Tim Allen and the Santa Claus 2, you know, the toy one. Yeah, there, there's some stuff going on. I'll see if I can jump scare you guys later when you're supposed to be talking on the episode. I mean, if we're talking real-life body horror, let's not go down this rib. These ladies and their Ozempic pills need to be separated. That's all I'm saying. A lot of the men, too, though, to be fair. Yeah, to be fair. But yeah, there's some. There's an issue with Hollywood and we need to to People's heads straight, I think. Hey, look, it's all about body positivity until everybody can afford it. So here we are. 9:07 Season seven, episode 12 aired on July 12th of 1996. Again, we're talking about Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow. Ash, we have a bit of a situation this week. Let's talk about the comic book inspiration as we visit you for this week's House of Horror. Okay, let's talk about it. We're going back to January of 1952, Haunt of Fear issue 11. Didn't like this one, guys. I feel. It's a very predictable story anyway. Just going into like the ins and outs of it, but it's a very predictable story. You can kind of see. You know, the source material, where it came from, because it's an unscrupulous. Businessman,

An unusual one this time, as we look at the first time Supermarionation was merged with real life location footage.